For What it's Worth We're Exactly One Month Past the Normal "Dead of Winter"

(c) 2010 F. Bruce Abel

Look up and chin up. We are secretly moving toward March, April, etc.

And away from the Dead of Winter and our Siberian husking. ("A shell or outer covering, especially when considered worthless," like the 12 inches of snow we have burying the path from one of our cars.)

Can our sole, morose robin survive? Can those of us who do not limp to Florida do so?

In theory the worst is behind us. For Cincinnati, what is the "normal" dead of winter? (We are entering our third week of totally below freezing temps, at least where the sun is not shining, I believe, with no weather encouragement to melt our record snowfalls.)

For answer to this arcane question, What is the Normal Dead of Winter?



Click on my chart of The Dead of Winter by:

typing "dead of winter" in the search window at upper left;

or choosing "dead of winter" among the "labels" of this blog.

Best of all, just click this!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2FY0Ayie_N8/R49iHWuLS4I/AAAAAAAAARs/LdjV6CJkzm8/s1600-h/20080117+the+dead+of+winter.bmp

I use "heating degree days" a lot -- or used to. That will get you to "dead of winter also."

This heating degree chart, by the way, is "valuable" in an odd way. Back in 2005 when I permanently downloaded it from the Weather Bureau it was free. Now they charge -- if you can find it.